Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adj] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we knew the answer to this question , we should be close to understanding the clinically important issue of how the expression of opsin genes is controlled . |
| 2 | Nobody should be subject to bouncing over humps in heavy vehicles which do not possess the suspension of a motor car , be it passenger or driver . |
| 3 | The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) . |
| 4 | There is , however , no explanation as to why cats from that particular English county should be prone to smiling . |
| 5 | He said any measures to tackle the budget deficit should be secondary to dealing with the recession . |
| 6 | Personal convictions should be open to testing by the guidance of other Christians . |
| 7 | Our way now should be clear to accepting the propriety of applying these principles to the modern-day working environment , calling the slaves , workers and the masters , bosses . |
| 8 | Your puppy must be used to walking on the lead before you start any proper heel work training . |
| 9 | Surely science must be close to forecasting such natural catastrophes ? |
| 10 | This led Morgan ( 1943 ) to argue that drive must be due to activating a central nervous system mechanism that represents the drive state , much in the same way as Papez was claiming that activation of the cingulate cortex represented emotion . |
| 11 | ‘ The political fallout , while all very interesting to politicians , must be secondary to getting the best representation for the people of Colchester . ’ |
| 12 | Except Christie Goldsborough , who 'd sat watching them , as supercilious as if he found their accents comical or difficult to understand which , when one remembered what he must be accustomed to hearing in St Jude 's , he certainly did not . |
| 13 | The words which do not appear in other lists fall into several important groups : signs relevant to deaf culture , signs which might be subject to borrowing by languages in contact , signs where compounding is likely to occur , number and colour terms . |
| 14 | A. If your rent or rates are higher than you can afford you might be entitled to housing benefit . |
| 15 | it 's bad enough having three kids , he said oh the dogs I 'll be used to looking after kids |
| 16 | Soccer : Suspensions could be key to deciding European finalists |
| 17 | Medical researchers believe they could be close to pinning down the cause of hereditary asthma . |
| 18 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 19 | If you know , or think you may be vulnerable to getting Thrush when using antibiotics for Cystitis , do mention this to your doctor , who may well prescribe treatment ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 20 | If the swing around on landing is severe , it may be due to using too much pitch , which will aggravate the above problems . |
| 21 | The text does , however , refer to a rescript , and it has been pointed out that oddities in the structure and language may be due to incorporating that . |
| 22 | ( On Mori figures , the swing was relatively low among Express and Mail readers , but this may be due to sampling variability . |
| 23 | Also , the factors identified above as relevant to deciding the effect of alternative remedies may be relevant to deciding what effect to give to a statutory ouster clause which is open to more than one interpretation . |
| 24 | Another factor which may be relevant to explaining the difference between the early 1980s and the early 1990s is the different regional and social impact of recent rises in unemployment . |
| 25 | In addition it is clear that the route by which information becomes public knowledge may be crucial to determining whether it thereby loses the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 26 | These may be standard to nursing in general , or locally determined . |
| 27 | If this is so then increasing the counselling skills of general practitioners may be preferable to widening the primary health care team . |
| 28 | Permitting management to use their discretion to run a company for the public benefit may be tantamount to encouraging them to run it according to their own moral and political views about what constitutes the public benefit . |
| 29 | You will appreciate that it may be subject to redrafting in the light of experience . |
| 30 | Although stateside gossip recently had it that Hitachi Ltd would soon be ready with Unix on its mainframes ( UX No 384 ) , latest rumours suggest that BASF 's Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH — a European OEM for Hitachi Data Systems ' IBM-compatible mainframes — is tired of waiting , and may be close to signing a deal with IBM for its already proven AIX/ESA 2.1 mainframe version of Unix , which is an implementation of OSF/1 . |